Qu'a-t-elle vu, la femme de Loth ?

Synopsis of Qu'a-t-elle vu, la femme de Loth ?

«Qu'a-t-elle vu, la femme de Loth ?» is the dystopian novel by Ioanna Bourazopoulou, published by Ginkgo in paperback (422 pages, in French).

A cataclysm has turned Paris into a Mediterranean port and made a violet salt coveted by all sprout near the Dead Sea. Ioanna Bourazopoulou builds a dystopia dominated by an all-powerful corporation, the Company: a solitary employee confronts it in Paris while five desperate people stir in a remote colony.

Translation from the Greek by Michel Volkovitch; original Greek of 2007 titled «Τι είδε η γυναίκα του Λωτ;». Winner of the Athens Prize for Literature in 2008.

Recommended for readers of dystopian science fiction and those seeking contemporary Greek narrative with black humor and irony.